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Man is an imagining being.

Gaston Bachelard

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Gift Mindset Soul Time
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Destiny Future Image Language Oneself Poetry Speech
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual

Man is an imagining being.

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